Alert: Stay at Home Moms Do Not Work
I wish someone had clued me in 25 years ago! All this time I should have been sipping cocoa and watching reality TV! Hilary Rosen, who has visited the Obama White House some 35 times (General Petraeus...
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No Car Seats on Grocery Carts – Please!
Today I saw you at the store and I gasped. The memories washed over me. I wanted to tell you my story. But you don’t know me and you certainly aren’t seeking unsolicited advice from the lady across the...
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I Do Not Believe in Royalty – Apologies to the Duchess of Cambridge
While “the world” was “rejoicing” over the birth of a new heir to the British throne yesterday, we were celebrating the 26th birthday of our oldest princess (and also brain), Jessica. While “everyone”...
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Adoption: Q&A from an Adoptee
On May 18, 1964, I was born in the Provo Hospital (now Utah Valley Medical Center). Two days later — if legend is true — my parents’ lawyer picked me up from my birth mother, who said, “Tell her I hope...
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What About Socialization? The Perpetual (and Inane) Homeschooling Question
I have a friend I have known since elementary school. Great guy. Smart, successful, interesting. Also one of the oddest ducks you’ll ever meet. Back then and now. He is married with children. His wife...
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Another Mormon Wedding
When we lived in Boca Raton, Florida, and I made my way around town with my (then) four young daughters in tow, I was always greeted by one of two things: What until they are teenagers! or Oh, the...
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One Stop Wedding Shop
Planning a wedding reception at home is a unique experience. We have a long list of things to do, to rent, and to buy. One of the most important was a chocolate fountain. It’s something the bride has...
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How Can You Stand to Be Around Your Kids All Day?
See the title, above. That is currently the most common homeschooling question I get these days. (And, lest you are wondering, it’s almost always from people who don’t know my children, so it’s not a...
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Why I’m Not Really All That Grateful to My Birth Mother
All my life I’ve been asked questions about my adoption. Today I heard a new one. When I had Jessica (our oldest child) I got a sense, for the first time, of how hard it would be to carry a baby for...
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Children are the Best Good
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of New York Life. All opinions are 100% mine. Every day I see Facebook posts from a friend who works as a nanny. She loves her charges to pieces and...
View ArticleAlternative Wedding Ring Metals
When I got married, in 1985, wedding rings were simple. Women got a yellow gold band with a big old diamond (usually round, maybe marquis) plunked in the middle. There might be a diamond or two (or...
View ArticleParents: Obey Your Children
Take the time to watch the video. Really. “Once a week church attendance is sufficient fora 13-year-old boy.” With all those block meetings, firesides, priesthood previews, family home evenings,...
View ArticleBedding Options for the Elderly
When creating a perfect room for an elderly family member, consider a few of the things I have learned over the past year. Protection – As people age, they have more health issues — many of which...
View ArticleBaby Shower Gifts
Guest Post by Shelly Garcia My dear friend, Krista, and her husband, Phil, are expecting their first child in September. After trying many times, shedding many tears of a “negative” pregnancy test,...
View ArticleRaising Someone Else’s Children
I’m one of those old fashioned people. I believe in raising your own kids. Now, I don’t care if it’s the mom or the dad — or some kind of mixture of the two. Do what works for your family. But if you...
View ArticleSex is Bad – Then You Get Married and “Like a Light Switch” It’s Supposed to...
The Boca Raton ward once hosted a stake Relief Society conference. One of the popular classes was “How To Keep the Romance Alive in Your Marriage.” Fun! Exciting! Romantic! In my late 20s with two...
View ArticleYou Never Know: Why the Mormon Message Might Not Mean What You Think It Means
Business 101 My first day in business school I learned about opportunity cost. It blew my mind. (I was young.) The opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone, in a...
View ArticleRemembering Robes
I’ve written about Robes before. He comes up in blogging and social media and conversation regularly. My kids who were too young or unborn during the Boca Raton days know his story. Or at least how his...
View ArticleBoy Scouts, Sexism Blindness, Homosexual Leaders, and the Mormon Re-evaluation
Today I intended to write about the vile and disgusting Planned Parenthood and all the companies that support them (and, thus, with whom I will no longer do business, such as Wells Fargo and Liberty...
View Article3 Love Hacks: Self-Love, Being Liked, and the Power of Getting Old
Love does not mean sacrificing any and all personal desires to fill the desires of someone else. It does not mean allowing people to mistreat you in the name of loyalty or peace or tolerance. It does...
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